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"Did you see her at the door? Look, you can catch sight of her here; she's wearing all her diamonds." For a moment or two they stood up in order to take a distant view of the count and countess. Sabine was in a white dress trimmed with marvelous English point lace. She was triumphant in beauty; she looked young and gay, and there was a touch of intoxication in her continual smile.
Yes, it was Emily herself. 'You were coming to see me? she asked. Love in a woman's voice what cynicism so perdurable that it will bear against that assailant? In the dusk, he put her gloved hand against his lips, and the touch made him once more noble. 'I had meant to, beautiful, but it seemed too late, and I was just on the point of turning back. You always appear to me when I most need you.
"Save it," said the other with gleaming eyes, "save it." Eunice shook her head. "No," said she, "it shall go to the sick children, but the principal I will not touch, and if I die before you it shall become yours and you can do what you like with it."
He forget the hand that touch him on the arm when he walk in the woods alone, or lie down to sleep at night, no one near. He forget that some one wait wait wait, till he has suffer long enough, or till, one day, he think he is happy again, and the Thing he did is far off like a dream to drag him out to the death he did not die.
It struck him as something awful and sacred; he could not answer it except by look and touch, and presently she went on after another pause: 'His sister will come to him very likely his widowed sister. She has a girl he is fond of. After a while he will take pleasure in her. Then I have thought so much of you and of the future.
In a well-known case, a blind man on gaining his sight by an operation said that "all objects seemed to touch his eyes, as what he felt did his skin" so little had the universal experience of countless ages impressed itself on his faculties.
That is, a bull, after he is tied to a fig-tree, though never so mad before, grows presently tame, and will suffer you to touch him, and on a sudden all his rage and fury cool and die. But the chiefest cause that works this change is the sharp acrimonious quality of the tree.
"I am not standing on it now; I am listening to your utter misapprehension of me and my motives.... I don't care for any damages." "It is perfectly proper for you to claim them, if," he added cautiously, "they are within reason " "Mr. Portlaw!" "What?" he asked, alarmed. "I would not touch a penny!
In the spring it had all been different: Bob had come north with his vagabond brothers a bit ahead of the sister-folk. And the vagabond brothers had been gay of garb fresh black and white, with a touch of buff. And Bob and his band had been gay of voice.
The first object that attracted us was John of Bologna's Mercury, poising himself on tiptoe, and looking not merely buoyant enough to float, but as if he possessed more than the eagle's power of lofty flight. It seems a wonder that he did not absolutely fling himself into the air when the artist gave him the last touch. No bolder work was ever achieved; nothing so full of life has been done since.
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